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Provectus76938

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Registered: 2026-01-05

Posts: 1

Audio not working (pipewire) on gnome.

First time posting here. Just did a fresh install of Arch, and logged into gnome, but I have no audio. I checked the output devices in the audio settings and it is dummy output. I am using pipewire. I have linux-firmware, sof-firmware, pavucontrol, pipewire-alsa, pipewire, pipewire-pulse, pipewire-session-manager, alsa-utils installed, but I get nothing. Here is the output of wpctl

[user@archlinux ~]$ wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.4.9, user@archlinux, cookie:378075712]
└─ Clients:
        32. pipewire                            [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1722]
        33. WirePlumber                         [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1720]
        34. GNOME Volume Control Media Keys     [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1573]
        47. WirePlumber [export]                [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1720]
        59. gnome-shell                         [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1394]
        60. GNOME Shell Volume Control          [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1394]
        61. xdg-desktop-portal                  [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:1805]
        62. wpctl                               [1.4.9, user@archlinux, pid:3210]

Audio
├─ Devices:
│      48. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
│ 
├─ Sinks:
│  *   35. Dummy Output                        [vol: 1.00]
│ 
├─ Sources:
│ 
├─ Filters:
│ 
└─ Streams:

Video
├─ Devices:
│      55. HP High Definition 1MP Webcam       [v4l2]
│      56. HP High Definition 1MP Webcam       [v4l2]
│ 
├─ Sinks:
│ 
├─ Sources:
│  *   57. HP High Definition 1MP Webcam (V4L2)
│ 
├─ Filters:
│ 
└─ Streams:

Settings
└─ Default Configured Devices:
         0. Audio/Sink    auto_null

Can someone help me out with this issue, am I missing something?

IFailALot

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Registered: 2024-05-29

Posts: 18

Re: Audio not working (pipewire) on gnome.

The first thing I would do is run alsamixer in a terminal and see if your sound is muted for some reason.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanc … chitecture

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: Audio not working (pipewire) on gnome.

Dummy audio often suggests you don't have a ALSA card, post wrapped in  [code][/code] tags

sudo dmesg | grep -E 'snd|sof'
aplay -lL
amixer -c0

what system/mainboard/laptop exactly?